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• Yes, plastic is an eco nightmare. But it's also tired, old technology - The Guardian

  21-07-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
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  Yes, plastic is an eco nightmare. But it's also tired, old technology
  The Guardian
  Everybody is moved by the plastic pandemic, but whenever I bring up the possibility of using something else a chorus of manufacturers and retailers tells me I must not demonise this “miracle material”. After all, it has been included in heart valves ...
  
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• Mobile phones and cancer – the full picture - The Guardian

  21-07-2018 18:01 via theguardian.com
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  Mobile phones and cancer – the full picture
  The Guardian
  An article we published last week about links between mobiles and cancer proved highly controversial. Here a cancer expert and physicist argues that it misrepresented the research and that fears are ill-founded • Last week's article: The inconvenient ...
  
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• Alibaba, Tencent in talks over stake in WPP's Chinese unit: Sky News

  21-07-2018 17:51
  Chinese conglomerates Alibaba and Tencent are involved in talks to buy a minority stake in advertising giant WPP's Chinese unit, Sky News reported on Saturday, citing unidentified sources.
  
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• Amazon, Toyota, Alcoa and others working to counter Trump's tariff plans

  21-07-2018 09:44
  Big companies in the United States from Amazon.com Incto Toyota Motor Corpand Alcoa Corpare working to counter the effect of the Trump administration's trade policies and to head off new tariffs.
  
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• When it comes to new technology, we're all Luddites at heart - Spectator.co.uk

  21-07-2018 05:12 via spectator.co.uk
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  When it comes to new technology, we're all Luddites at heart
  Spectator.co.uk
  When I saw my first jogger in Wales in the early 1970s, I assumed he was running away from the police. Presumably joggers were familiar in California by then, but not elsewhere. I can't imagine any of the characters in Goodfellas going jogging, any ...
  
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• Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase forms political action committee

  21-07-2018 03:57
  Coinbase has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on U.S. elections, the cryptocurrency exchange said http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00680355/1243300#SUMMARY in a filing made public on Friday.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers cut anti-ZTE measure from defense bill

  21-07-2018 01:17
  U.S. lawmakers cut measures from a defense bill that would have reinstated sanctions on China's ZTE Corp, abandoning an attempt to punish the company for illegally shipping U.S. products to Iran and North Korea.
  
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